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Scientists came to their conclusion, published yesterday in the journal PNAS, after reviewing data on 9,429 non-Hispanic whites, a group that included 825 wedded couples. The bigger number of the study: 1.7 million. That’s how many single nucleotide polymorphisms-which the Los Angeles Times describes as “the point at which a sequence of DNA differs between individuals”-the researchers reviewed. They observed that spouses often share other traits, like education level, and set out to “estimate the genome-wide genetic similarity of spouses and compare the magnitude” of it to that educational similarity, they write. Read More

Could You & Your Husband Have Similar DNA?  was originally published on wzakcleveland.com